Feeling Loved

It is truly blessed when circumstances call for the support of friends and family, and they respond with overwhelming prayers and love. Gosh, it's really wonderful. Thank you so much.

We've been laying low since Friday and reveling in time together. GG and the boys have been enjoying some good male bonding, particularly a McDonald's date last night while Mom suffered a short-term stomach bug (what great timing, huh?)

Mostly we've been talking through the what-if's of the coming months, creating plans for all sorts of scenarios. We are desperately trying to let go of our expectations, offering up our thoughts and plans. This isn't the first time we've had to "let go and let God." GG's first deployment (while he was actually in the Army) came in the midst of our supposed plans for him to apply for the JAG program and enroll in law school a year early. Unfortunately, the deployment meant he was overseas during the application period and LSAT prep. Plans changed and we had to change too. I remember feeling so exasperated that we couldn't follow through with our dreams and desires... Welcome to life. Never are we certain of tomorrow. God teaches me that lesson quite often!

The hardest part of this whole scenario is imagining GG being absent from our boys' lives for an unknown period of time. My heart just aches thinking of this, especially as GG is M's hero. There is nothing better than "Daddy" in Gasperini-Ville. GG has also expressed worry about little T not knowing him when he returns. Okay, heart now falling out of chest...

That's not to mention our "plans" being put on hold for another 3 years! GG will most likely serve for 2 years and then will have to take a 3rd to finish law school. This is a long time from when we'd imagined things. Note: Above rationale applied; we are working through our letting go.

Above all, we know we can make it through this, particularly with the support of our friends and family and with the saving grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank you again for your prayers. We are so bolstered by your love.

God bless you on this Lord's Day.